From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Giri Reddy <giri.reddy@qlogic.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Use of 'SIOCDEVPRIVATE' in ethernet drivers.
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 15:44:56 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140107154456.7e5af377@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <124064C45E1FC84193A69A61ED3A1F46E230D6@AVMB1.qlogic.org>
On Tue, 7 Jan 2014 22:22:45 +0000
Giri Reddy <giri.reddy@qlogic.com> wrote:
> On 1/7/14 11:05 AM, David Miller wrote:
> > From: Giri Reddy <giri.reddy@qlogic.com>
> > Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 18:21:17 +0000
> >
> >> Are we still allowed to use 'SIOCDEVPRIVATE' in drivers if there the
> >> deprecation efforts are on hold.
> > To say that use of SIOCDEVPRIVATE is discouraged would be an
> > understatement.
> >
> > Please create a generic ethtool based facility that other drivers in
> > similar situations can use as well.
>
> Thanks for the input. I will explore the 'ethtool' option. We will have
> multiple control frames exchanged between user space and kernel for
> every flash update operation, most of this will be proprietary stuff
> that will get exchanged - I will explore how to provide a generic
> interface for that.
>
> Giri
Maybe a debugfs or sysfs filesystem would work better than adding ioctl';s
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-07 23:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-07 18:21 Use of 'SIOCDEVPRIVATE' in ethernet drivers Giri Reddy
2014-01-07 19:05 ` David Miller
2014-01-07 22:22 ` Giri Reddy
2014-01-07 23:44 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2014-01-08 16:02 ` Giri Reddy
2014-01-09 21:09 ` Ben Hutchings
2014-01-10 3:45 ` Giri Reddy
2014-01-09 21:07 ` Ben Hutchings
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